Something I've spent most of this evening on is searching out local events for the next six weeks. Knowing the weather will complicate travel, I am focusing on a radius of about 20 miles. For people in large urban areas you may not need to do this. For me, I am in a small semi-rural area. My capitol city is 15 miles/minutes from my home. That city, Charleston (WV) has less than 50k residents.
I looked up my state fairs and festivals website. Charleston has a website of local events, but I want to grab a few venues outside as well. Anyway, I am scrolling through the events, copying and pasting critical information into a blank document. I will compare the dates with the open dates on my Airbnb listing calendar. (I cherish time with family and block time off for them.)
I will try to plan a package or two around one or more events. I'll do the math for the cost of breakfast items, maybe a carry-in meal, regular room costs, and calculate my break-even. I'll set the nightly rate at a "special" rate and notify past guests of the special.
My listing will never comand the kind of money many of you can get. I also don't want to have guests every night of the week. I can create other streams of revenue to help. So far I've only created two multi-night packages, ever. I will continue to work that angle through the low season and see what happens.
---> That's how I look at most guests, like cousins. And you know, some of those cousins are kooks.
